Twenty news broadcasts form 1983 covering research at the University of Florida in behavior and technology. No dates are given but the news feature about Charlotte Mather places the date about 1983 as she was student body president then.

News reports were broadcast on WUFT-TV.

Originally produced on ¾” u-matic. Reformatted to Betacam SP in 2003 and MPEG2 in 2005.

Tape contents

Segment 1

Title: [Renovation]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:00:57

File name: NPA0401

Dudley narrates a take off of the “Night Before Christmas” as views of the renovation of the News and Public Affairs area is shown. Herb Press is shown ducking into another room to escape falling plaster.

Segment 2

Title: [Composer John White]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01.31

File name: NPA0402

A profile of composer and University of Florida music professor John White. One of his compositions is briefly played (he is on cello and a young woman plays the piano) on the stage of the University Auditorium. Mention is made of his having obtained grants and awards especially his winning an award from the American Society of Composers and Publishers for the past eighteen years.

Test houses at UF have automatic devices which control water, lights, and windows. The simulated “occupants” of the houses generate heat and moisture. It is part of a state wide energy project to study energy use.

Segment 6

Title: [Architecture Competition]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:25

File name: NPA0406

Although the football team has not been able to win the coveted conference title, seventy-six architecture students are involved in a competition to design a shrine for the illusive chalice. A team of professional judges chose Alice Curry’s team’s design as the winner.

Segment 7

Title:[Research Park]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:04

File name: NPA0407

The appeal of warmer weather, lower business costs, and access to University of Florida scientists has led to the development of a research park. A deal was worked out with the Miami based Contact Industries whereby 153 acres were traded for 2.8 million dollars. The University is currently in the talking stages with several prospective tenants at the park.

Segment 8

Title: [Micronesian Languages aided by Computer]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:34

File name: NPA0408

With the aid of a computer in the Anthropology Department Damien Soll and Rita Ennos, students from Micronesia, will be able to save stories and folklore from their language and culture. Anthropology department chair Russell Bernard states that with the computer they can now store, manage, and print data on their own.

Segment 9

Title: [Rocket Fuel]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:09

File name: NPA0409

Due to the development of a particular kind of salt by scientists at the University of Florida the fuel of space rockets will be more efficient resulting in better mileage and less storage needed for fuel so that there is more room for critical payload.

Segment 10

Title: [Telephone Rates]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:08

File name: NPA0410

Florida publication commissioner Susan Weisman speaks to a meeting of utility executives at the University of Florida regarding the increase in telephone rates because of the ATT divestiture. Meanwhile the University of Florida Public Research Center is looking for ways to cut costs.

Segment 11

Title: [Study of Relationships}

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:14

File name: NPA0411

A brief report of the research of UF psychology professor Gregory Neimeyer who has been studying relationships and what makes a marriage a happy one.

Segment 12

Title: [Conservation of Electricity]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:31

File name: NPA0412

In order to save on energy use consumers should buy efficient appliances which would obviate the need to build new power plants. Engineering professor Barney Capehart states that only cosmetic things have been done but little by little that is changing.

Segment 13

Title: [Middle Age Sexuality]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:03:08

File name: NPA0413

Dr. Jacqueline Resnick discusses the research she has been doing on the sexuality of older women. She has interviewed over 200 women between the ages of 35 to 75. She found that in general the older women enjoyed sex more now that they are older than they did when they were younger.

Segment 14

Title: [Charlotte Mather]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:20

File name: NPA0414

University of Florida student Charlotte Mather has made history as she was the first women to be elected president of the student body. Dissatisfied with the student government system she formed her own party and won.

Segment 15

Title: [Energy Course]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:30

File name: NPA0415

Through a program of the U.S. Agency for International Development students from seventeen countries (as India, Ghana, and Costa Rica) came to the University of Florida to study alternative energy with professors as solar energy pioneer Erich Farber. House science and technology program director Don Fuqua is also shown.

Segment 16

Title: [Electrochromics]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:02

File name: NPA0416

Materials scientist professor Paul Holloway and his students are studying the substance of tungsten trioxide which can be used to coat windows and watch faces and can save energy. The U.S. Army is funding the study.

Segment 17

Title: [Robot Study]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:08

File name: NPA0417

Students as senior mechanical engineering student Aaron Arnold are studying fundmental mechanical aspects of robots and attempting to find ways to communicate with machines at the Center for Intelligent Machinery and Robotics.

Segment 18

Title: [Nuclear Waste Research]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:04:44

File name: NPA0418

A report on a study of nuclear waste which is being conducted by the University of Florida Ceramic Engineering Department, a group in Sweden, and the U.S. Department of Energy. The study involved five compositions of glass and granite which were prepared and then buried for five months in the Stripa mine in Sweden. The samples were unearthed and packed and sent to UF where they were unpacked and analyzed. Little attack on the glass from was shown after burial of a month or a year.

Segment 19

Title: [Cancer Research]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:01:29

File name: NPA0419

Quantum chemist Dr. Levin is studying the genetic code of cancer cells with a grant from the National Foundation for Cancer Research. A conference of 255 scientists from 24 countries to discuss cancer research took place.

Segment 20

Title: [Latin American Conference]

Date: ca. 1983

Reported by: Chris Dudley

Duration: 00:00:46

File name: NPA0420

A recent conference discussed the migration of people from Latin American countries to Florida. Thirteen scholars presented ideas on how to generate jobs and increase cooperation in order to strengthen both ties and economies.